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Part 3: Back at Maybeck
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The 57 Bus, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Gender and Sexuality
Adolescent Crime vs. Adult Crime
Binary Thought and Inclusive Language
Discrimination and Social Justice
Accountability, Redemption, and Forgiveness
Summary
Analysis
Now instead of best days, Sasha has a series of “worst days,” and “worst nights.” Their legs constantly ache and itch, and everything is different now. They must shower sitting down and still “feel like they have to pee all the time, but can’t, a side effect of having a urinary catheter in for all those weeks.” Sasha is tired at school, but their pain pills make them “hyper.” Everything has happened so fast. “How is this a thing that happens?” Sasha wonders.
Sasha can’t understand how their skirt has led to such pain. Their entire life has to be modified because they have been perceived as different and targeted for it, and this too underscores the hardships faced by the trans and agender community.
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